Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...
Patients may better tolerate video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), but there are concerns about the potential for missing lymph node metastases. Over a recent 4-year study period, VATS lobectomy was ...
The David J. Sugarbaker Division of Thoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine is a team of highly motivated, compassionate individuals who pride themselves on providing state-of-the-art clinical ...
We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Patients who underwent robotic or ...
Pleuroscopy for evaluation of pleural effusions and infections has been performed for centuries and is one of the oldest forms of minimally invasive surgery. The introduction of the double-lumen ...
Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation Versus Observation in Radically Treated Stage III Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized Phase III NVALT-11/DLCRG-02 Study In 2002, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons ...
Michal Hubka, M.D.: lung cancer, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, robotic surgery, video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS); Virginia Mason Seattle Medical Center, General Surgery, 1100 Ninth Ave., ...
This article appears in print in the April 2020 issue as part of the Top Doctors (Cardiology Specialties) cover story. Click here to subscribe. Thoracic and cardiac surgery includes operations ...
MANCHESTER — Historically, thoracic surgery — surgery on the lungs or other parts of the respiratory system — is a major operation with a long and uncomfortable recovery, not to mention a sizable scar ...